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March 29, 1932. 'R. H. GILFILLAN ET AL CONTAINER Original Filed ma 21,1928 I Z1 ""lll'l"IIIIIIII'IIIIIII I'll Inventars F. Gil/1:75am

/ .1 Tic/2e By W Attormgy portions Patented Mar. 29, 1932 UNITED: STATESPATENT. OFFICE CONTAINER Application filed May 21, 1928, Serial No.279,528. Renewed June 26, 1930.

'Thepresent invention relates to acontainer designed ,particularly forpackaging the valve insidesandthe like and the prime object of theinvention resides in theprovision of a package which-permits smallarticles to be conveniently vended individually in a wrapped conditioneither from avending machine orby hand.

Another very importantobject ofthe invention resides in the provision ofa container of this nature formed with a plurality of compartments, thecontainer being adapted to be cut or torn for selling the contents ofthe compartment individually in a wrapped condition.

Another very important object of the invention resides in the provisionof a container of this nature which is impervious to air, water, and thelike, is simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture,durable, and thoroughly eflicient and reliable for the purpose intended.

With the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features ofconstruction, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of acontainer embodying the features of ourinvention, a

Figure 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section therethrough, and

Figure 3 is a transverse section therethrough taken substantially on theline 33 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings in detail it will be seen that the numeral 5denotes an elongated sheet of flexible material such as paper havingfixed at intervals on one face thereof of a corrugated sheet 6 ofsimilar material to the sheet 5, which may be impregnated with paraflinor other suitable material if desired.

These sheets 5 and 6 are sufliciently thick so as to be substantiallyform retaining thereby forming transversely disposed compartments 0. Theends of the compartments are sealed as at 9 with glue or other suitableplastic material.

A sheet of relatively thin flexible material such aspaper is denoted bythe numeral 7 and is placed over the sheet 7 as is clearly illustratedin thedrawings and is wider than the sheet 6 so as to extend down acrossthe ends of the compartment '0 and under the bottom surface of the sideportions of the sheet 5, and fixed thereto by means of suitable adhesivematerial or in any other preferred manner.

A sheet 8 of material similar to sheet 7 is i placed across the undersurface of the sheet 5 and over the portions of the sheet 7 on saidunder surface. The sheet 8 is fixed by means of adhesive or in any otherpreferred manner.

The sheets 7 and 8 may be impregnated '66 with paraffin or the like soas to be impervious to the air, water and the like. If desired thecontainer may be transversely slitted as indicated at 10, said slitsextending inwardly from the side edges and terminat- "(0 ing a distancefrom the center and in actual practice the paraffin will hold the partstogether but permit sections to be easily torn off and each section willrepresent an individual comp artmentwhich is properly sealed.

We contemplate vending tire valve insides with thiscontainer but'ofcourse it may be used in any other suitable or similar manner.

It is desirable that anuncorrugated section 11 extends from one end ofthe device preferably attached to seat 8. The purpose of thisuncorrugated extension 11 is to provide means for easily splicing twoportions of strip to that already in a vending machine or the like orfor any other reason to add length to the strip. This extension serves afurther purpose of guiding the last segment of the strip in the chute ofa vending machine and also serves as means for removing the last fewsegments from the chute of a vending machine.

The present embodiment of the invention has been disclosed in detailmerely for the purposes of exemplification since in actual practice itattainsthe features of advantages enumerated as desirable in thestatement of the inventionand the above description.

It willybe apparent that changes in the details of construction, and inthe combination and arrangement ofparts, and in the material may beresorted to Without departing from separated by flexible portions,theends of said the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimedor sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new is:

l. A container for pneumatic tire valve insides and the like comprisingan elongated sheet of flexible material, an elongated corrugated sheetof flexible material fixed along one face of the first mentionedsheet'to form a plurality of compartments, said first men-- tioned sheetbeing of a length greater than the length of the corrugated sheet andextending therebeyond at one end of said corrugated sheet, a sheet offlexible material covering the outer surface of the corrugated sheet andconforming With the corrugation of the said sheet, plastic materialsealing the ends of the compartments, and said last mentioned sheetextending over the ends of said compartment and secured to the outersurface of the side portions of the first" men tioned sheet. 7 r

2. A container for pneumatic tire valve insides and the like comprisingan elongated sheet of flexible material, an elongated corrugated sheetof flexible material fixed along one face of the first mentioned sheetto form a plurality of compartments, one side of the exterior of thecontainer being corrugated and the portions of the container betweencompartments being readily flexible to permit rolling of the container,and plastic material, impervious to moisture, sealing the ends of thecompartments. 7

3. A container for pneumatic tire valve insides and the like comprisingan elongated sheet of flexible material, an elongated corrugated sheetof flexible material fixed along one face of the first mentioned sheetto form a plurality of compartments, and glue sealing the ends of thecompartments, said sheets being impregnated with water-proofingmaterial. I

4. A container for pneumatic tire valve insides and the like comprisingan elongated sheet of flexible material, an elongated, corrugated sheetof flexible material secured to one face of the first mentioned sheetand forming a plurality of compartments, means for sealing the ends ofsaid compartments to exclude moisture therefrom and a thin, flexibletongue projecting transverse the corrugations at an end of said flexiblesheets and secured thereto for attaching containers end to end.

5. A container for small machine parts having in combination a flexible,corrugated sheet and a single, flexible, plane sheet secured togetherface to face along the pro- ]ecting extremities of, the corrugations atone side only of the corrugated sheet and forming between the sheets amultiplicity of spaced, parallel, elongated compartments compartmentsbeing sufiiciently small to permit the formation of closures by sealingmaterial having a high surface tension and a sealing composition, havinga high surface tension and high melting point, closing the ends of saidcompartments.

6. A container comprising an elongated substantially flat strip offlexible material, an elongated corrugated strip of flexible materialarranged on said flat strip and secured to one face thereof at thepoints of contact between the troughs of the corrugations of thecorrugated strip and the flat strip and substantially of the same Widthas said flat strip, said strips forming an elongated ribbon havingthereon a series of transversely disposed substantially parallel articlecontaining compartments located between the points of engagement of saidcorrugated strip with said flat strip and extending longitudinally ofthe ribbon, and means for closing the opposite ends of said compartmentsto retain articles therein.

ARTHUR L. RICHE. ROY H. GILFILLAN.

